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Harriest predicament you've ever found yourself in while in the woods?
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<blockquote data-quote="BuckWild" data-source="post: 5282126" data-attributes="member: 217"><p>Back in the mid 1980's, elk hunting in Idaho along the LoLo Trail. Spotted a bull and 3 cows about 800 yards as the crow flies but about 2 miles by terrain. My hunting partner and I decided to bail off and do a stalk. After 2.5 hours of hiking, we were within 100 yards of where we spotted them and it started to lightly snow. We slowly hiked up hill to the spot and when we reached the top, there was another valley and no elk. Now it had really picked up and the snow was coming on down. Having no idea on how much snow was expected, we decided to cut and run back to the LoLo Trail. Unfortunately for us, within an hour it was near whiteout conditions and we could no longer find our tracks and the snow was almost knee deep. Walking through knee deep snow is very exhausting especially when you have no idea where you are going. We were lost in the snow and no one knew where we were. I just kept telling Pete we can't sit down to rest. Sit down to rest and you'll fall asleep and never wake up. We had a compass, so we knew which way to go, it was just so dam hard to pick our feet up. Eventually the snow subsided and we got moving again and 6 hours later we struggled up a ridge and there was the Trail. We split up to go find the truck and somehow we had come out about a 1/4 mile south of the truck. Pete found it and cranked it up and started laying on the horn to get my attention. I was so exhausted I could barely function to drive and Pete passed out 5 minutes after I started driving. We finally made it back to our camp about midnight. </p><p></p><p>What had started out to be a half day scout/hunt almost became our last day on the planet. </p><p>After that day, if I saw one snowflake fall, I headed back to camp or the truck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BuckWild, post: 5282126, member: 217"] Back in the mid 1980's, elk hunting in Idaho along the LoLo Trail. Spotted a bull and 3 cows about 800 yards as the crow flies but about 2 miles by terrain. My hunting partner and I decided to bail off and do a stalk. After 2.5 hours of hiking, we were within 100 yards of where we spotted them and it started to lightly snow. We slowly hiked up hill to the spot and when we reached the top, there was another valley and no elk. Now it had really picked up and the snow was coming on down. Having no idea on how much snow was expected, we decided to cut and run back to the LoLo Trail. Unfortunately for us, within an hour it was near whiteout conditions and we could no longer find our tracks and the snow was almost knee deep. Walking through knee deep snow is very exhausting especially when you have no idea where you are going. We were lost in the snow and no one knew where we were. I just kept telling Pete we can't sit down to rest. Sit down to rest and you'll fall asleep and never wake up. We had a compass, so we knew which way to go, it was just so dam hard to pick our feet up. Eventually the snow subsided and we got moving again and 6 hours later we struggled up a ridge and there was the Trail. We split up to go find the truck and somehow we had come out about a 1/4 mile south of the truck. Pete found it and cranked it up and started laying on the horn to get my attention. I was so exhausted I could barely function to drive and Pete passed out 5 minutes after I started driving. We finally made it back to our camp about midnight. What had started out to be a half day scout/hunt almost became our last day on the planet. After that day, if I saw one snowflake fall, I headed back to camp or the truck. [/QUOTE]
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